Troubleshooting server memory leaks

[Ross Vandegrift]

Hi everyone,

I've noticed a slow memory leak which causes Xorg to burn through all
the memory on my workstation.  After leaving it run approximately 30
hours, the RSS is at 55.6% of 2GiB.  I have returned to an OOMed box
that I had to powercycle.  Last night, I came back to an RSS of ~80%
of 2GiB, all of my swap used, but was able to kill and restart Xorg in
time.  xrestop show usage of about 30MiB.

There is a potential match in the Debian BTS [1], but there is no
solution, or even a guess.

I don't know much else about troubleshooting memory leaks in the X
server.  What should I look at next?

This is Xorg 7.4, X server 1.6.5, nv driver, no compositing manager,
no DRI.  System is Debian testing/unstable.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531071


-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross at kallisti.us

"If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter.  If the going gets tough,
the songs get tougher."
	--Woody Guthrie
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